Workflow

This page describes the tooling used during development of this project. It also serves as a reference for the various commands that you would use when working on this project.

Overview

This project uses the GitHub Flow for collaboration. The codebase contains Python code, Jinja2-based HTML pages, Sass stylesheets and Javascript code.

  • nox is used for automating development tasks.

  • Webpack-based build pipeline is used to process the Sass and Javascript files.

  • sphinx-autobuild is used to provide live-reloading pages when working on the theme.

  • pre-commit is used for running the linters.

Initial Setup

To work on this project, you need to have git 2.17+ and Python 3.6+. You also need to be on a platform that is officially supported by NodeJS 16.

  • Clone this project using git:

    git clone https://github.com/pradyunsg/furo.git
cd furo

  • Install the project’s development workflow runner:

    pip install nox

You’re all set for working on this project.

Commands

Code Linting

nox -s lint

Run the linters, as configured with pre-commit.

Local Development Server

nox -s docs-live

Serve this project’s documentation locally, using sphinx-autobuild. This will open the generated documentation page in your browser.

The server also watches for changes made to the documentation (docs/) or theme (src/), which will trigger a rebuild. Once the build is completed, server will automagically reload any open pages using livereload.

Tip

My workflow, when I’m working on this theme, is along the lines of:

  • Run this command, and wait for the browser window to open.

  • alt+tab gets me back to my text editor.

  • Make changes to some files and save those changes.

  • alt+tab switches to the browser.

  • After a small delay, the change is reflected in the browser.

  • If I want to make more changes, alt+tab and I’m back to my text editor.

  • Repeat the previous 4 steps until happy.

- @pradyunsg

Documentation Generation

nox -s docs

Generate the documentation for Furo into the build/docs folder. This (mostly) does the same thing as nox -s docs-live, except it invokes sphinx-build instead of sphinx-autobuild.

Release process

  • Update the changelog

  • Run nox -s release

  • Once that command succeeds, you’re done!

Installing directly from GitHub

There are times when you might want to install the in-development version of Furo (mostly for testing that a fix actually does fix things).

This can be done by directly telling pip to install from Furo from GitHub. You likely want to install from a zip archive, to avoid cloning the entire Git history:

pip install https://github.com/pradyunsg/furo/archive/refs/heads/main.zip